About me

Human visuals creator. Portrait photographer, tutor, filmmaker

Biography

He was born in 1988. Since 2010 he lives in Kyiv (Ukraine) and works hard on the international projects. He has been professionally engaged in visual practices for over 10 years and specializes in the making of photos and videos that reflect the people’s character and acquaint with their unique stories. Man being such a complex and multifaceted creature is the highest value in the works of Sarakhanov.

He implements projects that tell about the diversity of people's inner emotions, their destiny, life experience and creative activity. Sergey has worked with such extraordinary personalities as David Lynch, Yasmine Hamdan, Fin Greenall (known professionally as Fink), Ralph Appelbaum, Pierre Dukan, Janusz Leon Wisniewski, Wladimir Klitschko, Jamala, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, Siarhei Mikhalok, Vera Polozkova and many others.

Sergey is the author of unique training programs of portrait photography. When interacting with the students, he pays maximum attention to the awareness of their photographic process and the content of their photos. Besides the regular shooting activity, Sarakhanov holds the master classes, lectures and workshops and tutors his students individually.

Since 2010 he has held over 100 workshops and about 30 courses as a teacher.

His personal exhibitions: «The heroes», 2008, gallery «Рабфак»; «The Eyes», 2008, gallery «Квартал»; «People of art», gallery «It is not a Louvre» (Kyiv), 2018; «People of art», space «The art of Coffee» (Dublin), 2018.

Sergei is the creator of the visual image projects for Nike, Red Bull, Puma, Hennessy, Vodka Finlandia, Canon, Lenovo, Huawei, LG.

He is the winner of the “Best photographer 2010” and Grand Prix awards for "The Eyes" photo project. The work was honorably mentioned by David Clark, who is the head of the photographic direction of the gallery Tate (London).

In 2021, together with the port Agency for the Ukrainian Institute, he made a portrait project 30 Independent. It is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine and shows the country through portraits of prominent Ukrainians - artists, athletes and scientists.

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